And so are we all. How is it that the most Jewish city outside of Israel is now on an alarming arc which ends in the installation of a chief icon of JewHatred into Gracie Mansion, the Mayor of New York City. My city. My birthplace. That of my parents. The city which gave shelter and future to my grandparents. My places of work and play, of workplace and worship. The city where my children were raised.
The city which has now decided that I and my people are no longer wanted here. Not a new thought or movement but enabled now to be of great consequence. Urged from the mouth of this hatemonger, this moral coward who speaks of hate, who roots for hate, yet who refuses to admit it. Who relies on vocal obfuscation and games of ring around the truth dances. Who in fact sees it as a wave sweeping the nation and the world in general.
Thus, the inevitable thought: Why not continue in that same path? Build upon its apparent strengths and welcomed into so many homes and organizations. Ignore the vile odors and sights permeating its existence wherever it lands and takes root. In fact, its roots are widespread and deep, able to build upon and move forward in the growth industry of the century.
And Mamdani is in it up to his neck even as he spouts worthless pie in the sky promises never to come to fruition - other, than the growth industry of JewHatred and the accommodation for all those who espouse it, stand up for it, and trample over those they hated. The very same people who had aided them via organizations they had founded and funded. How bitter is the ingratitude of the hateful and prideful. How negative the consequences.
The man does not even have the courage of his misguided ugly principles. He skirts and skates around the truth. "I do not use that language," he states. But he endorses it, justifies it with falsehoods, and refuses categorically to condemn it. He ignores the fact that complicit and implicit are the same coin, not even the other side, so closely are they related and supportive of each other.
With his own words and actions, or lack of action, he condemns himself. He has openly set up his own tent in their home where he becomes not merely tainted of their ugliness but is stained indelibly with and by their negativity and false debilitating hopes engendered by pie in the sky impossible promises guaranteed to fail with their empty promises and inevitable meltdowns leading to further unrest and blame games aplenty.
Frankly, I believe that he and Trump, supposedly from diametrically opposed places on the political spectrum, are equally dangerous. Equally inimical to the concept, the dream and the idea of America. Both, if they remain in power, or worse, gain more, will lead to a nation split or cut with the knives of a thousand cuts, resulting in a degeneration of future hopes. A nation once a strong democracy will, of necessity, as a direct result of policies inimical to the welfare of the population of this nation, will inevitably deteriorate into a hardscrabble life for most, a deep gray future and an elite class, uber-uber wealthy, only distantly aware of the woes besetting the plain folks, and that includes the majority of us, even up to and including the lower wealthy economic classes.
No one will be immune to the bizarre inhumane policies and their inevitable unavoidable results. All brought to you via the 'courtesy' of those robotic GOP members who sold their souls for a bit more of the Leader and their party in power. As they waited like servants of the King, to bask perhaps in a second of a smile, as he clumsily walks by, even as their constituents suffer greatly from hunger, lack of medical care, denied access to a full and proper education - as the dream of America goes flat and disappears. All enabled, predicted and made into ultimate truth by bills such as the one passed yesterday, so predictive of disaster of so many, many facets, so complex in its ultimately unfortunate results, that no one can yet plumb the depths of its horrors to come.
Ameria, the once proud United States of America, a leader of nations, will crumble into a deeply unhappy and poor nation, one of struggling lives, hopeless dreams, and a discarded democracy and deep disrespect for individuals and inherent rights. Poof! All gone. The only unknown is the length of time till utter disaster and its boundaries, if indeed there are any. A nation of food shortages. Hunger and helplessness growing exponentially. No safety net, nowhere to turn. The only path to success will be the already growing clearer slimy bloodstained tear-soaked rungs of ladders one never should have existed in this once proud and decent nation.
Despite all my gratitude for his Israel policy - at least so far - the concern over our deteriorating national character, the ugliness of our present path through history, rises higher and higher. There is no way to predict this man's modus operandi other than to know that it is based upon one guiding point. That which is good for him generates all laws and policies, rubber stamped by a captive legislature and judiciary. That which has lost its benefits for him goes away. Period. Not resulting in a stable nation, a stable economy, nor a stable prediction of foreign policy, or even if America will be able to play any significant role in the governing and survival of the world for so greatly will it have deteriorated, all is strengths diminished, becoming of lesser and lesser importance.
As for Israel then .... Only the Lord knows, and we can wonder whether He will pay attention or simply blink once again, tired of the misdeeds, squabbles and ingratitude of His creations.
One spews forth hate with every breathe taken. The other is drenched in selfishness and mistrust. Even his rare, good deeds are tainted by that selfishness. Are bathed in deep mistrust. Both men and their adherents certainly are not predictive of a positive future. Despite their seeming political differences, the end results will be the same. Unless somehow, some way some time soon, we can halt this ugly deterioration into a frightening unknown. The critical level of uncertainty and fear, giving way to Hatred and the dog-eat-dog world of harsh hopeless lives they will create, will, as history has taught us this oh so well, give way to a dictatorship severe and unforgiving. Ultimately not good for the Jews, not good for a once upon a time America, and not good for any soul of the world.
It is incumbent upon the people of this nation and actually the people of the world, to recognize truth, the reality presented before us. To stand up. Pick up their puddled pants. And do something. For their own sakes and for their children. We must dig deep down and find our courage to do what is right and necessary. To use the remaining power of our votes, our voices and our courts to stand with us and effect the changes we so desperately need. To find some relatively honest legislators, if there remain any, and put all into place before it is too late.
Where and why have we gone so wrong? Wish I could lay out a list and check off the boxes as we repair it. As we rectify the errors we had made. We need to reach back deep into our yesterdays and find the redeemable, the positive, and bring it back into our todays. Improve and fortify their endurance and then move them into place into our tomorrows now so greatly threatened.
Either we do so, and soon, for the future to bloom and blossom once again, so we can qvell (take righteous pride) in our success. Or we fail to do so, and the sounds of the wails and moans of humanity will be of powerful decibel never before heard, as we weep deep and too late.
Again, the choice is ours. The time short. And where the hell are we other than genuflecting to those who espouse the worst of mankind. Who champion violent bloody Hate and greedy selfishness beyond the pale.
Where are we?
Who are we?
Can we turn it around, halt the hands of the Doomsday Clock?
If only....
Maybe then we could say with rightful pride -
Ich bin ein Amerikaner.
Ich bin ein New Yorker.
Ich bin ein human.
And qvell.
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